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It was Friday afternoon, March 21, roughly 48 hours before the curtain was to rise on ABC's live broadcast of this year's 75th annual Academy Awards ceremony, and Ted Sann had a problem. It was 3 p.m. in Manhattan and Sann, the chief creative officer and chairman of the New York flagship of BBDO Worldwide, the world's third-largest ad agency, had a creative team out on the West Coast still haggling over the final cut of a 30-second Oscars spot for client AOL Broadband. Would the ad pass muster back at headquarters? Time was running out.
Ad deadlines are always pushed to the limit for highly coveted spots during special programs such as the Academy Awards and the Super Bowl, when ratings peak and viewers are almost as interested in the commercials as they are in the show itself. But this time, the final cut was running critically late. It still had to be finished, then reviewed by Sann back in New York along with a half-dozen other BBDO executives and AOL. And that was just for starters. After that, the commercial would still have to be finalized and get network clearance from ABCa process that, under normal circumstances, could take days to complete.
In the past, the task would have seemed insurmountable, says Melinda Graham, the supervisor for the AOL Broadband account. "We would have been scrambling at the last minute over the weekend, frazzled nerves and a deadline breathing down our necks," Graham says.
But not this time. Thanks to BBDO's use of a new digital asset management system that lets the agency gather, organize, track and digitize its contentfrom moving images and radio spots to still photographsit took Graham only ten minutes to encode a final cut of the reel and send it from Hollywood via the Web to the AV department in New York, which then transferred the electronic file to Sann's set-top box for viewing in seconds. Meanwhile, copies of the ad were sent via the Web to AOL Broadband and viewed by the BBDO creative team, and from there, a quick copy of the tape was created and sent via courier across town in Manhattan to ABC. By 5 p.m. ET, close to quitting time on a normal Friday, Graham's team, and Sann, were already on their way home for the weekend.
The payoff? A review process that would normally take up to several days or more was completed in just hours, and at roughly two-thirds the cost to BBDO. Says BBDO North America CIO Dennis Pannuto, who helped to create the digital asset management program for the agency, "BBDO is known for the creativity of its ads, but in this economy and marketplace, we're finding that clients are looking for a little bit more."
Indeed, DAM helps the agency "bring costs inside, cut out the middleman, and keep margins competitive," Pannuto says.
BBDO is not alone in its push to do more with less. Driven by the sour economy, as well as falling information storage costs, faster computer processing speeds and fatter network bandwidth capabilities, companies from retail leader Target Corp. to pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca PLC are turning to digital asset management strategies to help them catalog, make sense of and leverage their fast-growing warehouses of informationwhether audio, video, text or all three combined. Companies just starting to experiment with DAM say it can help them not only cut costs, but also create new profit opportunities: Media giant Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. (MSO) for example, is looking to DAM to help it sell specialized content to its customers.
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How does the technology work? Digital asset management systems help firms create a digital warehouse that stores all company media and information, tagged by common names, or metadatainformation, say, about when a photo was shot, who shot it, where it was used and so forthaccessible at the click of a mouse and in a form that can be sent anywhere, anytime, and in seconds. That might not sound like much, but when used as part of a business strategy to cut costs and find ways to use in-house data to spawn new revenue opportunities, DAM can be worth millions.
But DAM isn't for everyone. Systems, whether created in-house or bought off the shelf, can be expensive. Paul Ritter, an analyst with The Yankee Group, a Boston-based technology research firm, says the software alone can run as high as $250,000, and companies may end up spending thousands more to install it, not to mention thousands more, still, to learn how to use it and fold it into an overall business strategy. "Some companies are charging three, four or even five times more on the professional services end than what the software costs," Ritter says, "because it's a complex installation and integration effort"especially if the information assets that a company needs to digitize are old, or could, in paper form, fill dozens of warehouses around the globe.
Building a DAM system also can create cultural challenges, depending on how many different names the company uses, across its various business units for a particular piece of information, or how many old and new technology formatsfrom 8-track tape to floppy disksthat information assets are stored on. Often, some companies find, some of the most valuable information can literally walk out the door every night. At Martha Stewart Living, for example, CIO Sheila Beauchesne says that at one time, the only clues about where some of the company's 93,000 assets could be found lay in the heads of a couple of veteran staffers.
It's no wonder, then, that a growing number of companies, pressed by ever-more urgent needs to cut costs and create new revenue opportunities, are starting to experiment with DAM. In a March 2003 CIO Insight survey of 501 CIOs, 36 percent said DAM wasn't yet on their radar screens, but some 18 percent said they've already deployed DAM, and another 15.8 percent said they're testing various DAM applications in pilot projects. Another 30 percent said they're tracking development. (See "Doing More with Less.") "The economy is forcing many companies, even those with strong products, to realize they can't sell their way out of the downturn and that, instead, they need to economize," says Michael Moon, CEO of GISTICS Inc., an Emeryville, Calif.-based tech research firm, "and economizing must become a permanent part of the business strategy." Adds AMR Research Inc. senior analyst Jim Murphy: "The industry jargon is 'We need to leverage our existing resources.' And from an IT perspective, DAM is about leveraging existing resources."
Consider MSO. In recent months, as efficiencies have been ordered internally across the company's various divisions, the company is using its two-year-old DAM project to help it weather the economic fallout from CEO Martha Stewart's December 2001 sale of her stake in ImClone Systems Inc. Even now, says Morningstar Inc. analyst T.K. MacKay, who tracks MSO for investors: "Advertisers are not committing to buying ad space in the company's flagship Martha Stewart Living magazine, and management is having difficulties negotiating with retailers to take over the lucrative merchandising business." Indeed, on April 30, MSO announced a loss of $4.51 million for the first quarter of 2003, its second consecutive quarterly loss since going public three years ago. The company's 2002 annual report quotes Stewart as saying the company won't be back in the black until 2004, or later. With the economic downturn, cost-cutting is now the recipe of the day at MSO, and CIO Beauchesne is already using DAM to cook up savings. Conceived in early 2001, not long before Stewart's ImClone woes, the DAM system aims to completely digitize the company's nearly 100,000 assetseverything from photographs of Martha's rose garden to her recipe for osso bucco and her advice for removing port wine from beige silk toile. The idea: Give the media giant the ability to more quickly, and cheaply, repurpose its vast storehouse of information for reuse, repackaging and resale. The strategy has not only cut dramatically the number of photo images the company needs to shoot and re-shoot, Beauchesne says, but can cut the cost of doing business throughout the company. "We have editors, researchers and photo archivers who have all seen productivity gains from this so far," says Beauchesne. In addition, the average story research time has been cut from six hours to 20 minutes. "We had people who were literally going back and flipping through old magazines to try to find some particular topic," says Beauchesne, "so everybody saw the DAM program as a big benefit right away." Considering the recent cutbacks in the company's Internet division alone40 of its 90 staff members were eliminated in a recent round of layoffsanalysts say the DAM program isn't only a "good thing," it's critical.
And now, spurred by the need for more cost-cutting and innovation, Beauchesne has served up an even bigger idea: This year, she's using DAM to help MSO execs plot a new business strategy that would use DAM to enable the bundling of various types of content into single packages that could be sold to individual customers, as customized content, for a feea project scheduled to get off the ground sometime this summer. Beauchesne says MSO is looking over customer data to get a sense of what types of premium content might sell best.
For now, though, the big win for many companies experimenting with the technology is speed and productivity gains from enhanced collaboration. At the WorldWide Retail Exchange, a 63-member consortium including Target, Campbell Soup Co., J.C. Penney Co. Inc., Royal Ahold N.V., Kmart Corp., Wegmans Food Markets Inc. and a variety of other food, textile and manufacturing companies can, for a fee, store their digital assets on the WWRE's secure DAM system. Using its program, members are cutting their marketing costs on advertising circulars and reaping a variety of other benefits. Members can use the one-year-old system not only to collaborate on joint marketing campaigns, but also to store and share its most commonly used digital assets, such as photographs of fabric, buttons, people and products. "A lot of textile and electronics companies have suppliers in the Far East, and DAM gives them the ability to share designs in real time across the globe," says product director Maureen Phillips-Houser, who runs the DAM program for WWRE.
In the textile business, for example, clothing manufacturers who supply Target and J.C. Penney and other WWRE members send people around the globe, from Paris to Australia, looking for new trends in color, fabric and style. Information is collected and sent back to the design team, which then begins the design process for, say, a new shirt. Today, that process is manualtrend managers have to physically send fabric samples and other data by mail. "You don't have any control over who gets these assets and what they do with them," says Phillips-Houser. Using WWRE's asset manager software, member retailers will still send out trend managers, but now those managers can go back to their hotel rooms at night, upload their images, check them into WWRE's central repository and share them with their design teams, in real time, anywhere in the world. WWRE also gives members access to more than 400 Adobe Illustrator files that show line drawings of a point of measure for, say, a clothing pattern, or how to measure a shoulder or cuff. "It makes data-sharing inside a company much easier, and data-sharing across retailers much easier, too," Phillips-Houser says. And the savings are undeniable. "The average cost to produce a single beauty shot is about $300, so if you capture 5,000 beauty shots over the course of a year and you're able to share that one image across the organization, you can save over a half-million dollars just in providing a single repository for all of your operating companies," she says.
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Even the highly competitive, high-cost pharmaceutical industry is starting to sit up and take noticefor cost-cutting benefits and in response to pressure from regulators to meet marketing guidelines. London-based AstraZeneca, for example, the maker of the $2 billion heartburn drug Nexium, is using DAM to help ensure it meets its internal standards for accuracy and consistency across its 170 public Web sites and 1,300 intranet sites. The company, among a dozen being investigated by U.S. Attorney's offices in Boston and Philadelphia over allegations of inducements used to persuade doctors and health plans to prescribe its drugs, wants to better control how its content is written and distributed to customers. According to Stephen Taylor, the company's business engagement manager, the firm is thinking of ways to use DAM to communicate directly with doctors, via the Web, about the merits of a new drug. The goal, says Taylor: To reach those doctors who don't have time for a physical visit from one of AZ's sales agents. "There's always a certain core of doctors who haven't the time nor the desire to see a sales representative," Taylor says, "and the average time you get with a representative, especially in the U.S., is usually about 30 seconds." DAM, he says, might help AstraZeneca sell more drugs, but it also "gives doctors a way to view an infomercial about a new drug on their own time."
Down the road, says Gistic's Moon, DAM could hold even more promise. For example, he says, managers could use DAM to track which assets sales agents use most, and help identify which sales people are the best. "The chief marketing officer could use this to look for differences among A-team members, to find out, for example, why the A-team member in the northeast territory is doing something that the A-team member in the southwest isn't doingand then tie that to figuring out why the northeast territory is 11 percent over quota while the southwest is 5 percent under," says Moon. "That's a piece of data that closes the loop for the CMO to come back and say, 'Something's going on here' and then be able to fix it."
How to get started? BBDO CIO Pannuto advises other CIOs mulling DAM to look at it as a business strategy, "not a technology implementation" or failure is a sure thing. (See "Viewpoint," page 54.) Gartner Inc. analyst Toby Bell suggests companies might want, as a first step, to name a content strategist whose job it would be to create an inventory of corporate media assets, start cataloging them and then convene executives to consider their potential for strategic business use. "A lot of IT shops are looking for cost recovery, doing some ROI calculations, trying to eliminate a large number of moving parts," says Bell. "At the same time, though, they should review what the prospects are for using their existing information assets."
Just ask Martha Stewart. Last spring, the company, pressed by Kmart's financial woes as well as its own, sought to expand its line of Everyday products into the Canadian market. Sears Canada Inc. was interested, but needed a rundown of the company's productsand fast. Before the DAM system was in place, putting this sort of presentation together would have taken months, as the needed images and product information would have been in multiple locations, and "there would have been no way to pull all of that together and create it fast enough," Beauchesne says. What's more, the presentation would have been delivered in an enormous, clunky, paper-stuffed binder that would have taken "multiple people multiple weeks" to assemble. Thanks to DAM, Beauchesne says, the company was able to create a package, all on CD-ROM, within minutes. The payoff? By summer, Martha Stewart products will be available in all 162 Sears Canada stores, as well as in the Sears Canada print catalog and Web site.
Was DAM the only reason MSO won that new partnership? Beauchesne says no. But there's no doubt that it helped seal the deal in the time requiredand that, agrees Beauchesne, was a really good thing.
Debra D'Agostino is a reporter at CIO Insight magazine. Staff researcher Bijal Saraiya contributed to this report. Please send comments about this story to email@example.com.
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|BBDO North America
|Getting multiple approvals for rough cuts of TV commercials or print ads could take several dayslonger if couriers lost or delayed materials in transit to clients and execs around the globe.
|A DAM workflow program called "The Screening Room" lets BBDO creative personnel and executives share and distribute rich media, including sound, video and photographs, in minutes.
|The Manhattan office reduces courier costs by more than $500,000 and cuts to hours from several days the review process for 25 clients.
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|The Exchange's 63 member companies spend months of staff time and millions of dollars sending physical copies of photographs, story boards, concept designs or packaging samples between headquarters and different internal divisions or outside business partners.
|Retailers and suppliers store product photos and corporate logos on a secure WWRE DAM site, with access privileges granted to business partners, such as grocery stores, textile manufacturers and retail outlets, to improve collaboration.
|DAM cuts the work required to days from months, and speeds the impact of promotional campaigns in targeted markets. It also saved client companies $600,000 last year by creating a centralized repository for creative assets.
|Astrazeneca PLC
|Redundant and outdated information on the U.K.-based pharmaceutical company's 170 public Web sites and 1,300 intranet sites confused client physicians and staff members.
|DAM helps the company standardize its marketing message across sites, better manage its online content and digitize millions of offline documents to help bring new drugs to market faster.
|DAM cuts in half the time it takes to manage and prepare digital content, for annual savings of $50,000 per Web site, and enables AZ to stream infomercials to doctors over the Web.
|Sales brochures for various travel destinations and packages sometimes contained outdated price and availability information.
|A DAM system organizes the travel company's 65,000 images, arming travel agents with up-to-date travel-package information to help them sell more to clients.
|TUI UK now produces all publications internally, saving thousands of dollars in production costs and helping the company's 1,000 agencies serve clients better.
|Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc.
|A need to track the company's 93,000 assets, followed by a companywide cost-cutting initiative, required business units to become more efficient and productive.
|A DAM program lets editors reuse contentfrom recipes for bundt cake to photos of rosesand will soon help the company sell customized, packaged bundles of content to individuals on demand.
|Estimated savings so far of $1.5 million, with annual savings of up to $7 million predicted by analysts, plus potentially millions in revenues once its customized-content subscription strategy is under way.


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Members of the Federal Reserve's advisory council, which includes the Board of Governors, have expressed strong concerns over the Fed's low-interest rate policies and its bond-purchase program, which they say could trigger unmanageable inflation and an "unsustainable bubble" in the stock and bond markets.
Minutes of the Federal Advisory Council meeting held on May 17 were published Friday on the Fed's website and reveal concerns among its officials over the long-term ramifications of its quantitative easing policies.
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The Maryland Public Service Commission will soon begin hearings on a proposal to build a liquefied natural gas terminal in Calvert County, but many on Thursday protested the idea.
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With several large regional or statewide infrastructure projects in the planning stages, government eminent domain issues have surfaced for rural landowners in many parts of California. Public works under consideration range from water and flood-control projects to utility upgrades to major transportation projects such as California High Speed Rail, a statewide train system for which construction is slated to start in the Central Valley.
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Third-generation farmer Samuel Curran of Madera describes his property as "ground zero" for high-speed rail. He is among landowners in the path of a 30-mile stretch of the initial construction segment known as Construction Package 1, from south of Madera to Fresno.
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Turner warned that if landowners accompany the appraiser, they should avoid potential complications by stating only "the facts."
Curran said part of his property currently being utilized for his farming operation would be affected by the high-speed rail project. Part of his land could be used for the development of two overcrossings as well as for temporary construction easements. Curran said he remains concerned about what that would mean for his property, his access from one parcel to another, and his overall farming operation.
In the meantime, Curran is not alone. Whether it be high-speed rail or any other infrastructure project, experts say it is critical for California landowners to be aware of their rights.
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Pumpkin Decorating IdeasSeptember 24, 2013 | FILED UNDER: Uncategorized
Once pumpkins start appearing at the grocery store, I can't help but take home a few to put on the mantel. I particularly love finding fun ways to decorate mini pumpkins. Is it any surprise that this year I would cover mine in pom-poms?!
First it was the pom-pom wall art, then the pom-pom balloons, and now the pom-pom pumpkins. I think I will officially declare 2013 as the year of the pom-pom for Design Improvised! My mom actually gave me this idea (thanks mom!) and I immediately went for my glue gun.
I also recently received a box of crafting goodies from Martha Stewart Living (more on that to come!) and these little card stock masquerade stickers were included. I thought it would be fun to disguise a couple of my mini pumpkins with them:
Both of these ideas only take minutes and a few dollars for the pom-poms and stickers. All you need is a glue gun to stick them on! Even though the little masks had adhesive on the back, I added a dab of glue to make sure they would be extra secure. I then just drew little black strings for the mask with a Sharpie.
I rounded out my Halloween mantel with a few pages from a Martha Stewart Halloween paper pad that I had framed a couple Halloweens ago and continue to reuse! The black vases are normally in our master bedroom, but I thought they would add some nice height to the display.
So grab a few mini pumpkins and a glue gun and make your own festive mantel in minutes!


text: Florida Atlantic University (FAU) has adopted a new "Free Speech and Campus Civility" policy, which essentially disregards the First Amendment. Though initially the document espouses the benefits of free speech, it abruptly launches into an assault on the First Amendment rights of the FAU community. "What we do insist on, however, is that everyone in the FAU community behave and speak to and about one another in ways that are not racist, religiously intolerant or otherwise degrading to others," the document reads.


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BellaSugar Chats with Vidal Sassoon: The Highlights
At 83, Vidal Sassoon, the original celebrity hairstylist, is as active and sharp-witted as ever. His documentary, Vidal Sassoon the Movie, is currently out in limited release, and his autobiography (which he penned himself) is set to be available in the US in April. And after 65 years in the business, he's still "got it" with his slightly flirtatious personality and keen sense of humor, making it practically impossible not to be charmed by the handsome octogenarian. When referred to as "Mr. Sassoon" on a recent call, for instance, he immediately quipped, "Everyone calls me Vidal, because Mr. Sassoon [his father] is the banker." See what else Vidal had to say about the film, his inspirations, and more when you keep reading.
On his childhood career dreams: "The last thing I wanted to be was a hairdresser. My mother insisted that she had a premonition that I become a hairdresser. I was far more interested in architecture. If I couldn't be an architect - a soccer player. If I couldn't be a soccer player - a gangster. But my mother took me in at 14 [to a salon to work] and the only thing that kept me there, besides her very strict administration, were the pretty girls. And the place was full of them, either as clients, or working there. So that helped me on my way to become a hairdresser."
On what drove and inspired him in the beginning: "I knew in 1954 when I first opened my salon... that hair had to change. It was just so old-fashioned. When you look at the faces of some of those gorgeous women that were making films in the '20s and '30s, you thought, 'Oh, if we could have got to their hair.' Because much of it was so corny. It was beautifully corny, don't get me wrong. There was [just] something missing."
On what makes up the classic Vidal Sassoon cut: "The general principle is to look at the client standing, the bone structure, the body structure, certainly the neck and the cheekbones, and see what comes from it. [It's to] see what comes to your mind and then suggest something to the client. Sometimes they won't buy it, but sometimes they'll say, 'I need a change. Go for it.' Now to do this you've got to be a superb cutter."
On how the Vidal Sassoon academies and salons today represent his vision: "Fortuitously, every time I walk in a [Vidal Sassoon] salon somewhere - not that bad work is done at others - I'm thrilled with the sense of the fact that they've all learned the cutting and the shapes and the angles. I get a great kick out of it that it's lasted all these years, because we've never let the quality go down."
On discovering that his dear friend Michael Gordon, founder of Bumble and Bumble, wanted to make a documentary about him: "I said, 'You're going to need quite a few dollars, Michael, and you're going to need a professional staff.' He said, 'I've got both.'"
On whether or not he had concerns about the documentary overall: "I knew that because of the quality of Michael, it was going to be good... I didn't question it in my mind one bit. You know the older you get the more fun you have. They thought I was crazy. There I was writing a book, working on the movie, and one helped the other... The movie part was quite marvelous because it wasn't always people saying well little things about me. There was one guy saying, 'I couldn't work with him; he was crazy.' And I think that's nice. And he gave the reasons why he thought I was crazy. So, if I was to advise young people I would say, 'Just get on with it. Just do it, whether the others like it or not. Get on with it.'" Be sure to stay tuned from more from Vidal, including some great stories and anecdotes from his years in the beauty industry.
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ONE of the world's leading information security training and education companies has relocated its flagship course to Malvern.
The National Cyber Skills Centre in the Malvern Hills Science Park, Geraldine Road, will now deliver InfoSec Skills' Practitioner Certificate in Information Assurance Architecture course after it moved from Manchester.
It also means the course will be offered as a live public class at the centre from Monday, July 28 to Friday, August 1
Debbie Tunstall, manager of the centre, said: "We are thrilled to be able to host the course and as a live public class for the first time. For InfoSec Skills to move their flagship course from Manchester to Malvern is a huge coup for the centre, Malvern, and even Worcestershire as a whole.
"The move shows that the centre is already putting both the town and the county on the map as a hub of cyber excellence and can only mean good things for the future, as more and more businesses, training providers and organisations become aware of our existence, providing a huge boost for the local economy."
The centre, which is supported by employer body e-skills UK, delivers high-quality, assured training provision to businesses, education providers and cyber specialists in order to protect themselves against cyber-attacks.
The course prepares students for a career in security architecture and provides those already within the industry the opportunity to enhance or refresh their knowledge and, in the process, gain a qualification which is recognised by industry.
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This is one of a collection of films made by the Selby Cine Club. This film provides a wonderful overview of the town of Selby as it was in 1965 and is accompanied by an interesting historical commentary. It shows pedestrians and traffic in the town centre, many of the shops, and includes the Toll Bridge, the Monday market, the Reverend John Kent giving a tour of the Abbey, the shipyard, the BOCM Mill, and a Council meeting.
This is an ICI Billingham Film Unit travelogue with an unusual premise and title. The film promotes the North East as a marvellous place to live and work and includes footage of engineers, scientists and draftsmen at the ICI Billingham chemical works and the many social pursuits available for workers: sports at Billingham Synthonia and Wilton Hall Clubs, rowing and sailing on the Wear,Yorkshire Gliding Club at Sutton Bank and rock climbing. The film also tours around local Teesside villages and towns such as picturesque Norton and Stockton-on-Tees on a busy market day. The coastal towns of Saltburn, Staithes (including women in traditional Staithes bonnets) and Whitby are explored as well as the iconic cities of Durham, York and Newcastle (including night time Hoppings scenes on the Town Moor). The final scenes capture the remote landscapes of Weardale and the world of the hill farmers.


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CPANPLUS should work with core Perl, although it is a lot happier if you will let it install some modules during setup, especially on machines where it might be difficult to use binaries. Certain options, such as md5 checks, require that module be installed. However, if you don't want these modules installed you can decline them during configuration (if you do want them, CPANPLUS will handle the installation before it installs itself).
As for the normal prereq handling, CPANPLUS allows you to select whether you should always follow prereqs, never follow prereqs, or prompt for each.
CPANPLUS will decline to install new versions of Perl. It will let you download them, if you like, but because Perl should be installed quite interactively, CPANPLUS insists you do it yourself.
One advantage you may find to CPANPLUS--which I mention since you talk about production servers--is the programmer's interface which makes it easier to maintain modules on multiple machines. You can set up an install script to install the same modules on multiple machines (and handle known issues with modules and the like). CPAN.pm does allow this, but by poking through the shell. By comparision CPANPLUS is a lot cleaner, since it was designed with the programmer's interface in mind (shells are just layers on top of the interface). Check out Backend for more information on the programmer's interface. It's worth noting, however, that this is version .036, and the interface changes significantly (which it may continue to do until release 1.0) in the upcoming .04 (in particular, return values become objects).
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The events of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat unfold shortly after the end of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl following the ending in which Strelok destroys the C-Consciousness. Having discovered the open path to the Zone's center, the government decides to stage a large-scale operation to take control of the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat utilizes the XRAY 1.6 Engine, allowing advanced modern graphical features through the use of DirectX 11 to be fully integrated; one outstanding feature being the inclusion of real-time GPU tessellation. Regions and maps feature photo realistic scenes of the region it is made to represent. There is also extensive support for older versions of DirectX, meaning that Call of Pripyat is also compatible with older DirectX 8, 9, 10 and 10.1 graphics cards.
The game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: CoP has no internal benchmarking tools built into the game engine, but they do have a standalone benchmark available that we used for our testing purposes. The screen capture above shows the main window of the benchmark with our settings. Notice we are running Enhanced Full Dynamic Lighting "DX11" as our renderer.
Under the advanced settings we enabled tessellation and 4x MSAA. We didn't enable ambient occlusion as we wanted to use these test settings for mainstream cards down the road and these settings should be tough enough to stress any and all DX11 enabled video cards.
Benchmark Results: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat proved to be more than playable at pretty much any single monitor resolution on the ASUS Ultimate GeForce GTX 550 Ti video card. The ASUS designed card was ~11% faster than the NVIDIA reference design in this benchmark.
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I think that's something we're going to discuss. We'll probably talk about it on the flight. We want to do what's best not only for David, but what's best for the team.Meanwhile, we'll see if anything comes out of tonight's WHDH interview.
The team's shortstop problems got significant play in Sunday's papers, magnified by Julio Lugo's flat-footed attempt to turn a double play on Friday night. Terry Francona was fairly pointed in his comments:
We all thought we should have had a better shot to turn that.Francona also hinted at some friction between manager and shortstop:
The hard thing is, sometimes Loogie and I go back and forth. He wants me to have his back, which I think I'm supposed to do, but at the same time, if I have something to say to someone, I have to say it. We've gone back and forth where it's not always real comfortable. You're always trying to help, walking that fine line where you're helping and not hindering.And:
Evaluating our shortstops in May, for public consumption - I don't know [how that] helps our cause. I watch the games. But it's our responsibility - if it's not good enough, then make it good enough.There are no solutions within the organization and it's doubtful the club would make a trade for an everyday shortstop since Jed Lowrie is expected back from wrist surgery in mid-July. We may have to grin and bear it for seven more weeks. At least Green is helping with the stick (102 OPS+).
Magadan notes that he has spoken to Jason Varitek about the importance of hitting in the cage every day. It turns out that Tek was taking some days off from hitting.
He took a couple days off early [in April], that's when I spoke to him about it. ... he's got to find a way to go in that cage and take some swings, even if it's 10 swings, at least get ready for the game. To his credit, he jumped right on it, said, "You know what, you're right." Because there are a lot of times he wouldn't do anything, day game after a night game.


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The "Akyem" in the title was a tribute to his late father, the Honourable Kwaku Boateng, MP, who served as Minister of the Interior as well as of Higher Education, in the Government of Dr Kwame Nkrumah. Mr Kwaku Boateng hailed from Akyem Abuakwa and his son, who was brought up in Ghana (his secondary school was Accra Academy) did not forget his ancestry in his hour of glory. It was an extremely courageous thing for Mr Boateng to choose such a title, for the British find it difficult to pronounce even "Boateng" (which some still mispronounce as "boating", despite his having been in politics there for so long!) Adding Akyem (which they would no doubt pronounce as Ah-kyerm!) could have seemed a foolhardy thing to do: a double mispronunciation of the name of a single individual? But Paul Yaw Boateng is not the sort of man to be deterred by trifles like mispronunciations. He nonchalantly took that "cumbersome" nomenclature to the "House of Ermine" and Lord Boateng of Akyem and Wembley he became. The title, of course, evokes a particular resonance in the bosoms of all Akyemkwaas – like yours truly!
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Former Titans linebacker Keith Bulluck was only hours removed from the team's preseason broadcast when he was arrested Sunday morning.
And as a result, he appears to have been removed from future broadcasts.
According to Jim Wyatt of the Tennesseean, the Titans list former quarterback Kerry Collins, not Bulluck, as the analyst for Thursday's broadcast in the team's press release.
The initial report said Bulluck was "very intoxicated" at the time when he allegedly took a $100 bill from a man in a cab. He was charged with class C felony robbery.
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These were the REQUIREMENTS which appear in the 2001 Boy Scout Requirements Book. A new Set of Requirements and a new edition of the merit badge pamphlet were introduced on July 23, 2001 at the National Jamboree.
Those Scouts that started this Merit Badge at the 2001 National Jamboree should use the NEW requirements. Once the new Merit badge pamphlet, No. 33391A, dated 2001, is issued, other Scouts may begin using the NEW requirements.
Those that started this badge using Merit Badge Pamphlet 33391, dated 1992, or the 2001 Boy Scout Requirements Book, which include the requirements listed below should finish the badge using these requirements.
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The Eclipse Cross is the most technologically advanced SUV we've ever created, packed with next generation technology.
The brand new panoramic roof includes the ability for the front section to open like a traditional sunroof, while both the front and back sun blinds can be opened or closed to let in light and breath-taking views of the sky.
The Rockford speakers and powerful trunk-mounted subwoofer deliver all the impact and sound reproduction of a quality home system.
The 360º Camera helps make tricky manoeuvres and tight parking spaces so much easier. Activated automatically when the car enters reverse, it provides a birds-eye view of the area surrounding the vehicle.
Adaptive cruise control monitors the road and adjusts the car's speed accordingly, maintaining the driver's chosen distance from the vehicle in front.
Sharp and powerful headlights are augmented by integrated DRL's, shaped to maximise their effect and style.
The Eclipse Cross' distinctive tail is given life by its unique light bar, positioned for ultimate visibility from behind.
Not all features are available on all Eclipse Cross models. See specification for details.
The Smartphone Link Display Audio system places a 7-inch display at the top of the center console where it allows the driver to see connected information and data safely and with minimal eye movement.
The colour Heads Up Display presents a transparent display of the information required to operate the vehicle within the driver's field of vision.
The Touch Pad Controller is located next to the shift knob just where the driver's hand goes when the elbow is on the armrest to offer the simple and intuitive operability of the display audio system without having to move body position while the car is on the move.
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Utilising the same laser radar technology as adaptive cruise control, collision mitigation technology keeps a constant eye on the road ahead and warns the driver should an impact risk be detected, both from traffic or pedestrians.
Cameras built into the front of the vehicle detect when the vehicle drifts out of lane and a warning is issued to the driver.
Helping you detect those out of sight obstacles the Eclipse Cross is fitted with front and rear parking sensors.
By detecting vehicles in your blind spot and alerting you in your mirrors this system helps to enhance safety and reduce accidents.
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Vancouver Whitecaps FC announced today the signing of South Korean legend Young-Pyo Lee - pending his international transfer certificate. Per Major League Soccer and club policy, terms of the contract were not disclosed.
Watch the unveiling of new Whitecaps FC signing Young-Pyo Lee live on whitecapsfc.com on Wednesday morning, December 7, at 10:30 a.m. PT
"Lee is a quality individual and leader - both on and off the pitch - that has excelled at all levels of the game and we are thrilled he will be joining our club," said Whitecaps FC head coach Martin Rennie. "He has played midfield, as well as fullback during his distinguished career and the addition of Lee as a right back to our side will help strengthen our defensive backline."
A former Republic of Korea (South Korea) international, Lee sits third on his country's all-time international appearance list after earning 127 caps between June 1999 and January 2011. This included appearances in three FIFA World Cup tournaments (2002, 2006, and 2010), with Lee playing a prominent role in the Taeguk Warriors' memorable run to the semifinals of the 2002 World Cup, which they co-hosted with Far East rivals Japan. The native of Hongcheon-gun, South Korea, also appeared in the 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup in his home country and three Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup tournaments (2000, 2004, and 2011). Lee's international appearances also include two matches against Canada in the 2000 and 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup when South Korea participated in the tournament as a guest nation. As a member of South Korea's U-23 Olympic squad, the defender appeared at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
"I am very thankful for my experiences as a professional soccer player in Asia and Europe and now I look forward to this new opportunity in Vancouver," said Lee. "Soccer in North America is growing and Major League Soccer has become a highly-respected league in the world game. I am excited to begin this new chapter of my career with Whitecaps FC and to make Vancouver my new home."
At club level, Lee has enjoyed a long and successful career in both Asia and Europe, having started his professional career with Anyang LG Cheetahs (now FC Seoul) in South Korea's Professional Football League (K-League). He led the club to a K-League title in 2000 and the Korean Super Cup title in 2001. In total, the fullback scored three goals in 97 appearances with Anyang LG Cheetahs.
Following the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Lee made the move to Europe when he re-united with former South Korean national team head coach Guus Hiddink at Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven. During his time in the Netherlands, the defender helped PSV to two Dutch Eredivisie titles and an eighth Dutch Cup title (2004-05). It was also in the 2004-05 season that YP Lee and PSV reached the semifinals of the UEFA Champions League. In just over three seasons with PSV, Lee made a total of 109 appearances and scored one goal.
In the summer of 2005, Lee moved to the English Premier League when he joined Whitecaps FC CEO Paul Barber's former club Tottenham Hotspur FC. In three seasons with the North London outfit, the defender made a total of 93 appearances, with Spurs winning their fourth English League Cup title during his final season with the club (2007-08). In the summer of 2008, the fullback joined German Bundesliga giants Borussia Dortmund, where he made 22 appearances during the 2008-09 campaign.
In the summer of 2009, the 34-year-old moved to the Middle East when he joined Saudi Arabian giants Al-Hilal. He had two successful seasons with the Riyadh-based outfit, as Al-Hilal won two consecutive Saudi Professional League and Saudi Crown Prince Cup titles. Lee also appeared for Al-Hilal in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League (2009-10 and 2010-11). Lee made 64 appearances and scored one goal with Al-Hilal.
Young-Pyo Lee
Position: Defender
Height: 5-09
Weight: 150
Born: April 23, 1977, in Hongcheon-gun, Korea Republic
Hometown: Hongcheon-gun, Korea Republic
Last Club: Al-Hilal (Saudi Professional League)
Citizenship: Korea Republic
How Acquired: Free agent signing by Whitecaps FC on December 1, 2011
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In 1974, Vancouver Whitecaps FC played their inaugural season in the North American Soccer League, and in 1979, the club won the NASL Soccer Bowl championship. From 1987 to 1992, as a member of the Canadian Soccer League, Vancouver won four straight CSL titles. In 2002, Whitecaps FC created a full club model that encompasses professional teams for men and women, extensive youth development and grassroots participation programs, facility development, and the Whitecaps Foundation to support specific initiatives related to health and wellness through soccer. Since 2004, Whitecaps FC have won two United Soccer Leagues First Division championships and two USL W-League championships. In 2012, Whitecaps FC will begin their second season in Major League Soccer on Bell Pitch at BC Place Stadium in downtown Vancouver.


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Compiled from selected police activity reports.
• Oct. 20: Officers responded to a non-injury accident at West Market and Basil. A report was taken and a citation was issued.
• Oct. 24: A street department worker reported that an unknown person had removed his rear license plate from his parked vehicle. Officers took a report and entered the plate as stolen.
• Oct. 25: Officers were dispatched to a report of two sisters involved in a domestic dispute at a North Granville Street address. Officers calmed down the situation, took a report, and referred both parties to the prosecutor.
• Oct. 26: Officers stood by at the elementary school while a parent picked up a child. Officers then assisted the Fairfield County Sheriff's Office by notifying the other parent of the new court order.
• Oct. 26: Officers responded to a residence in the 700 block of Washington on a report of a domestic dispute. The female had reported that the male was intoxicated and making threats to her and to any officer that came to the residence. The male was arrested and transported to jail for disorderly conduct.
• Oct. 29: Officers took a accident report at a non-injury accident in the 700 block of West Market Street. A vehicle pulled from private property and struck a vehicle traveling on West Market causing that vehicle to leave the road and hit a tree.
• Oct. 29: Officers took a report on the theft of items from a vehicle on East Water Street. The vehicle was also damaged by the break-in.
• Oct. 30: An employee at Walnut Creek Apartments reported that a resident had not been seen and was not answering her phone or knocks at the door. Police made contact with the resident. While at the complex, a 77 year old male resident fell in the parking lot. Medic responded and assisted with getting him back onto his scooter and then to his apartment. The resident was OK.
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• Oct. 24: A Duke service station employee told police that a customer left without paying for $20 of gasoline.
• Oct. 24: A Leroy Street woman said someone came to her home and started a fight with her and her boyfriend.
• Oct. 25: A driver was cited for running a stop sign on Mill Dam Road. It was the driver's third citation in a year.
• Oct. 26: The manager of a Walnut Road apartment said a window was vandalized.
• Oct. 26: A driver was cited for running a stop sign on Mill Dam Road.
• Oct. 26: A driver, who had illegal plates, was cited for traveling 46 in a 35 miles per hour zone on Walnut Road.
• Oct. 27: A driver was cited for traveling 49 in a 35 mile per hour zone on Walnut Road.
• Oct. 27: A officer tracked down a mother and daughter who were feared missing. They were found safe, but hiding from the child's father. The mother said the man attempted to choke her (not the daughter) earlier.
• Oct. 29: A Woods Street man was arrested on a warrant.
• Oct. 30: A Renner Street man who was on probation was found to be in possession of drug paraphernalia.
• Sept. 22: Police checked out an elderly man in a motorized wheelchair on North Street. He was OK.
• Sept. 23: A Lakeforest Drive resident reported the theft of a BMX bike.
• Sept. 24: A Gahanna man came to the police station to report that he signed over a $3,000 check to his girlfriend to put into her bank account. He said she is now upset with him and is refusing to give him back the money. Police spoke with her who eventually gave him $1,745 that she had in cash and promised to return the rest.
• Sept. 24: The complainant in the previous report was cited after he admitted to putting a license sticker for another vehicle on his expired tags.
• Sept. 25: Police took a report after a driver left the Duke station without paying for $25.02 in fuel.
• Sept. 26: A Broadway Street apartment resident asked police to check on the welfare of another apartment resident after he left her apartment intoxicated and said he was going to continue drinking. Police found him in his apartment and he said he was staying there for the night.
• Sept. 27: A Newark resident was cited for failure to control after her vehicle ran off Burch Street and struck a fence.
• Sept. 28: Police were called at 2:10 a.m. about a fight at the Canal Road apartment complex. Upon arrival, police saw a vehicle with two males leaving the lot. Police talked with the driver who said someone must have called when they were standing outside and talking loudly. They said there was no fight. Police discovered the driver was suspended and cited him for driving under suspension.


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With a name like Mistresses, ABC's new drama has guilty pleasure written all over it.
Based on the British series of the same name, Mistresses stars Alyssa Milano, Rochelle Aytes, Yunjin Kim and Jes Maccallan as a group of women whose lives are full of illicit and complicated relationships — most of them involving being "the other woman," and one of them involving another woman. (Yes, we're talking about a lesbian relationship.)
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Though being called a "guilty pleasure" tends to draw the ire of some showrunners, executive producer Rina Mimoun (Privileged, Gilmore Girls) doesn't seem to mind. "I embrace the term because it is soapy," she says. "Of course there are some melodramatic story points. This isn't Homeland. It's not The Wire. Is Parenthood a guilty pleasure? I don't think it is, but I hope we live in that world. Hopefully we're a grounded, relatable drama that has a lot of fun to it. Any time you take off your clothes a lot, you get a little guilty, so that's fine. We've got a lot of naked boys and girls running around, so it's a little guilty, but there's more to it than that."
In the series premiere alone (Monday, 10/9c, ABC), Savi (Milano) has an affair with a co-worker (Jason George), while Karen (Kim) deals with the loss of a patient with whom she was having an affair. Subsequently, she has an interesting and highly inappropriate relationship with his son. But it's not all as saucy as it sounds. At its core, the show is grounded in the realistic fallout of what an affair can do to all of those affected, not just the couple. "We really struggled to make sure that we don't think that adultery is no big deal," Mimoun says. "We don't think being a mistress or having been affected by your husband cheating on you is something that's frothy and adorable. It's serious and we try to deal with it in that way and handle it delicately."
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It's this approach that Milano says will help Mistresses stand apart from other soapy dramas — particularly that other ABC show centered on four women. "Desperate Housewives is a farce," she says. "Mistresses is really grounded in reality and honesty. We're not glib about any of the situations that we're getting into. We explore them and handle them in a very real way. Everyone is very honest with each other. April [Aytes] disapproves of Savi's affair, so we're not trying to candy coat it."
Mimoun echoes that sentiment when noting the similar comparisons being made between Mistresses and Sex and the City. "I absolutely do miss Sex and the City and do miss having a show where I get to concentrate on four women, but Mistresses is not about making fun of them, but really getting involved and invested in four women again," she says.
Also helping to ground the series is the fact that, while some of the storylines are carried over from the British show, Mimoun says several plot points were inspired by the writers' personal lives. "We're not campy, we're not broad in the comedy," she says.
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Although Mimoun is well aware of the conclusions viewers will draw from a name like Mistresses, she points to other shows, like Cougar Town, which have been able to overcome their titles. "That show then became a really fun comedy and it wasn't about a cougar town," she says. "We're not about mistresses in a way that people are ready to assume. The title is what it is, but it's a relationship soap."
"The show is so much more than the salaciousness of it," Milano adds. "So if people tune in for it to be something and it turns into guilty pleasure because they become addicted to the storylines and the characters, then I'm all for it."
Mistresses premieres Monday at 10/9c on ABC. Will you be watching?